Centre of Excellence in Municipal Leadership

Effectively managing at the regional and city levels requires specialized skill sets.

The Centre of Excellence in Municipal Leadership is a training, research and guidance centre that offers insight, academic leadership and visiondriven activities to help municipal leaders get fresh, new orientations, understanding, shared knowledge and skills.

The Centre addresses its mission through three core service areas: executive education, research, and shared expert leadership and management advice. This is the definitive municipal leadership program in Canada for those aspiring to lead people, teams and departments to a new level of excellence.

We are working with a number of companies to develop business and leadership programs that are tailored to the challenges of this sector.

One of the larger municipalities in Canada with a population of over a million people, this SEEC custom client has a young and diverse population – average age of 36 years – with 28 per cent visible minorities. The city is noted for its excellent quality of life, outstanding recreational activities, dynamic economy and low taxes. The economy includes energy, financial services, film and television, transportation and logistics, technology, manufacturing, aerospace, a vibrant sports sector, and retail and tourism sectors. It is also home to a high number of corporate head offices.

The Partnership

In 2010, SEEC developed a highly successful Masters Certificate in Municipal Leadership (MCML) for this municipality. The intensive 15-day program was taught by SEEC’s faculty with the content aligned to the culture and values of the City.

The MCML is designed to:

Develop leadership and team-building skills for existing leaders and those aspiring to lead

Shanghai is a city with one of the largest migrant populations in China. Each year, millions of people, who are originally from other Chinese cities and provinces, settle down in here for their future career development and family prosperity. However, this massive population influx causes administrative and community management issues and challenges, particularly for those frontline government officers at the level of the city’s administrative districts. The training objectives are to understand new trends in Canadian community services, new management approaches and innovation, and to learn North America not-for-profit organizations’ roles and importance in the community management engagement.

The Partnership

By leveraging SEEC’s strong government and municipal training programs, faculty and resources, SEEC developed a customized 21-day learning solution for SHOD. The program, launched in 2011, blends lecture studies and guest-speaker sessions with government and community-related site visits in Toronto and Ottawa. The training topics cover:

Government Policy and Community Engagement Management

Innovation in Community Management

Government Policy and Service Evaluation

Stakeholder and Third-Party Influence on policy makers

Big Data

Community Service and Management

Relationship between regional economic development and community engagement

Not-for-Profit Organizations in the Canadian community management

This case study highlights SEEC’s global reach and its ability to assess needs and design programs that provide high-value learning opportunities aligned with the client’s corporate culture and unique needs.